Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , when one of us is describing a restaurant , there is intensive cross-questioning about the quality of the puddings and petits fours , and commiseration if they do not sound up to scratch : ‘ Do you mean they only gave you one chocolate truffle each ! ’ |
| 2 | I — ' She turned to Ben now , saying , ‘ I do n't know why I was afraid , they just made me afraid . |
| 3 | I only had about two inches of rectum left , and they said cancer was a possibility , so they just took it all out . |
| 4 | Oh yeah , lots of stuff made for the Army and and and they did n't know , I mean the manufacturers s sent the work to the hosiery dye- yards they they did n't know what they were sending or what they got , they just churned it all out and and that was it you know it were I could a lot of things about that . |
| 5 | Oh yeah , they just condensed it all down you see technology erm battery power then erm |
| 6 | Last week they got so fed up with commuters crowding round their screens to find out the train times — because the computer board was n't working — they just switched them all off . |
| 7 | They were great friends — there were three of them : Uncle , Gifford Tate , and Papa Burger-I do n't know why ‘ papa ’ but they always called him that . |
| 8 | They always found it natural in government . |
| 9 | They also made it clear that the party fears that New Forum and other opposition groups could turn into mass movements . |
| 10 | Whereas they made it clear to his wife that they would never forsake her , they also made it clear to Tawell that he would never be accepted . |
| 11 | In a few short verses not only did that celebrated pair dispose of our continental neighbours , but they also made it clear that the Irish , the Scots and the Welsh were suspect too . |
| 12 | They also told us that next time they would hold people in custody until the next court sitting . ’ |
| 13 | They also thought it likely that two allies could bring that about — an outraged civilian persuading his powerful military friend . |
| 14 | They also gave them general intelligence tests so that they could exclude the effects of variations in intelligence . |
| 15 | they nearly did it brilliant way , remember I had the little labels on them and they 've all got mixed up one way or another |
| 16 | They often found it difficult to resist these demands . |
| 17 | They often called me paranoid . |
| 18 | Many society members attended the Festival to watch the team performing , and they really did us proud as they moved rhythmically and gracefully through the Medau hoop-item — aptly named ‘ Whirlpools ’ — devised and produced by Jean , whose live piano music was enhanced by percussion from Margaret Charlwood . |
| 19 | They even sent us some French and Belgians , people like that , to work the land . |
| 20 | It was n't a very dangerous operation , but they never told me that . |
| 21 | I saw my mother once a day at dinner time and I saw my father three or four times a week , but they never gave me any love . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , they never did it all in one move . |
| 23 | They never drew me naked . |
| 24 | they bloody changed it all about so that the , O , little Opel , was a Vauxhall Nova ! |